Western cyclone., 1887-04-21
KANSAS NEWS.

A young agsl 81 named Springer, has fall
Z Ed 6sr to $50, 600.
en ~ Noah of Bloomfield town
W. ih:4d Li county, Kans., is the
s ;i4Rsr Of twenty-one children
lS'..s aor If Odd Fellows in Kansas
The or9 Sno names to its ranks last
added d me- state has 283 lodges and
1900 members
! tba Ellis county, Kans., drug
e. a. have decided to sell n, no more i
gs Or They propose to let Prohlol-
Van prohibit entirely
,,ovel feature of the annual festi-
Z LID III bv the ladies' tea society, at
val held a'1;l Ts Kans., was coffee direct
l Nare the mission field Of Africa.
- Hammond, who on the 18th Of
JONI 1e57 was the sole solitary in
NAIL lan 40 If Emporia, Kans., is still q
habitat :lont If that city and hourishing
citizen
uooobo county, Kans., had 5,132
NoOe If castor beans last year which
as5S 81 800 bushels and brought
1880. What pays farmers better
fban castor beans?
6. Iobn Kans., is booming. Over
oo ~, contracts have been let for bust
wv y, houses A $4,000 court house
nS So;no built. and daily paper will
-. ~ Re started. Real estate trans
ssrs last week amounted to over SIOO,-
900.
The boom Of 1887 in Kansas will
nrobablv be matter OF historical re-
povd Never before was there such g
S,omise of an overlooking wave Will
aeIinse all previous records, great
tborch they may have been, and fill
o env' noble state with a good class OF
peopIe, wealth and prosperity.
The Junction City Union records the
death Of one of the earliest settlers OF
Kansas Mrs. Jane Sanderson was
horn in'Yorkshire, England, November
Il 1899: died March 81, 1887, aged
81 wears, months and 8 days. On
her arrival in America, Mrs. Sander
son spent two years i'll Evansville,
Ind: from there she removed to Gov
ington. Ky., and came to Kansas IN
the spring Of 1913. Her home all
those Years was near where Junction
rity now stands. She was one OF the
three first white women who came to
this state.
Avery important case was decided
in the district court at Hutchinson,
Kans., Thursday, involving the title
to- quarter section ofland lying with
in that city, which, four years ago, at
the time the suit was brought,
was worth about $4,000, but
is now worth 100000. The point
upon which the case hinged was wheth-
or or not an illegitimate child is an
heir. Under the law of Kansas he IS,
but Judge Houk decided that as the
title comes from the United States
government thrust begoverned by the
old common law, and that therefore
an Legitimate child cannot inherit.
W. A. Cotterman, of Usage county,
has been appointed by the governor
to be census taker for Stanton county,
Kansas.
The report OF John Fl. Smith, war
den OF the Kansas state penitentiary,
Tor the month of March is as follows:
Number of prisoners confined du-
nng month .......................... ~
1oial number confined during the
uOnln 9oI
Asscharged by expiration of SEN
~Vnce ............................... Il
lneOnfnement at close of month. 960
FINANCIAL EXHIBIT.
Saarged contractors for labor. 5 1857 49
AeePing Uuited States military
prisoners. 270 rs
Aeeping United States civil pris- 1876 %
Saasnlngs exclusive of coal mines. 1920 Ga
ccaarged contractors for coal...... 1852 rs
SOafged state institutions for coal 2. GAG 81
rafnings of coal mine. ........... 5,4I9 63
,0'al earnings for the month";. S,7I9 81
Spsnded for general support. 9.97l 5S
40'A expenditures for the month 1866 SO
Kansas produced 1882 tons of lead
not one-sixth of Kansas land has
ss' oeen brought under cultivation.
a Kansas 9, can give every inhabitant OF
s ae United States threepecks OF wheat
H. lleThomas County Cat says: 1.-TWO
hundred thousand acres of additional
IaAaole land in Thomas county.
T mans, will be put upon the tax roll.
1as means low taxes and that Thomas
s sounty will have a surplus Of no small
al. Inc Marshall county, Kans., drug
s's.s met IN convention at Mavsville
s s~a:rscaay and organized county as
eS 80 ,andresolved that they would
rot ot lax sake I out liquor permits and would
handle liquors for any purpose.
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